Entries from LAist tagged with 'donrickles'
March 6, 2008
Bob Saget will perform at 4th & B in San Diego on March 7, The Grove of Anaheim on March 8 and The Joint at The Hard Rock in Vegas on March 21 as part of his national theater tour and we're lucky to have another chance at him. Bob Saget is known to most people for all the wrong reasons.The cookie-cutter personas of "Full House"'s Danny Tanner and the "America's Funniest Home Videos" host......
Continue Reading "The LAist Bob Saget Interview - Saget to Appear in Anaheim, March 8th"February 19, 2008
Photo courtesy of Universal Wow! Most weeks I'm happy if there are a couple of new DVDs worth picking up. Today, I count at least eight that would be solid editions to any library. American Gangster may not have been the great film that many were expecting, but it was still solid studio fare. I'll say the same for Michael Clayton even though it inexplicably got better critical attention. Has Ang Lee ever made......
Continue Reading "DVD Tuesday: Break out the wallets!"January 15, 2008
In other news, a desperate NBC has ordered a pilot of the BBC's cars & celebs series, Top Gear. The show has been running on BBC America for a couple years now, I've seen a few episodes, notably one with Ewan McGregor. The show may be amusing depending upon which celebrities they line up, but it's no American Idol. Again, instead of coming up with something original, we're forced to watch rebranded concepts from overseas.......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Tuesday - Idol Is Back"November 30, 2007
I hope you've got a bunch of stuff Tivo'd because there's nothing on until Sunday. You tell me that there is stuff on tonight? What, you mean Friday Night Lights, NUMB3RS, or Las Vegas? Please. Tomorrow, there's no reason to turn on prime time TV unless it's for Citizen Kane on TCM at 8:30. The Big Story is Sunday, check it: Sunday 8:00pm Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project HBO - Special. Don Rickles is......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Weekend Edition"November 19, 2007
Listen to the interview here: Bobby Slayton is an icon, he's been doing stand-up for 30 years, everyone in the industry knows him, and generations of us have grown up on his comedy. At his live show the crowd gets warmed up with a video of practically every single well-known American comic, from Don Rickles to Robin Williams, giving props to Bobby. I've been listening and seeing Bobby Slayton perform for 25 years, listening to......
Continue Reading "LAist Interview: Bobby Slayton, The Pitbull of Comedy"June 11, 2007
A Word or 100+: Ooops, I missed the Tonys, malhereusement. If there's a pick tonight, other than arena football, then it's the US version of Creature Comforts on CBS at 8:00 p.m. (from the creator of Wallace and Gromit). I love the UK version but my kids have a hard time with the various British accents and some of the various topics - I know it's a lot to ask for but I'm hoping......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Get Comforted; Flight of the Conchords on Letterman"June 7, 2007
A Word or 54 (or so): I know that there are some folks who are happy to be getting a few new episodes of the doomed Studio 60 - enjoy it while you can. Funny how there is no cohesive letter-writing campaign to save that one, at least not a campaign that is getting any press. Tonight - Thursday - June 7th, 2007 Dodgers @ Padres (KCAL, 7:00 p.m.) Pirate Master (CBS, 8:00 p.m.)......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Sex On Wheels; Amy Sedaris on Letterman; Poison on Ferguson"May 31, 2007
We love good books. We even love some bad books. What we don't normally go in for, however, are memoir-type books, especially those of Hollywood legends. They hardly ever write the books on their own (this is Hollywood after all) and the gossipy asides from yesteryear never intrigue as much as promised. When Don Rickle's book, Rickles' Book, (don't get us started) hit shelves this month, we thought it would be just another Hollywood memoir......
Continue Reading "Rickles Riddles & We Don't Like It"May 29, 2007
Tuesday Ron Carlson discusses and signs Five Skies 7pm @ Vroman's Susanna Moore signs The Big Girls 7pm @ Dutton's Wednesday Susan Davis signs Gathering Sound 7pm @ Dutton's Susanna Moore discusses The Big Girls 7pm @ Vroman's Thursday Don Rickles presents Rickles' Book: A Memoir 7pm @ Book Soup Kerry Madden signs Louisiana’s Song 7pm @ Dutton's Sage Bennet presents Wisdom Walk 7pm @ Borders, Pasadena Susan Straight signs A Million Nightingales 7:30pm......
Continue Reading "Get Your Lit On: The Week in Bookish LA"May 16, 2007
A Word or 52: TV icon Bob Barker is retiring and is getting a big sendoff from CBS. Lost will be killing us by not giving us any additional info about Locke. Idol will knock another one off. There are no decent movies on TCM or IFC to go take refuge from regular broadcast TV tonight. Tonight - Wednesday - May 9, 2007 Angels @ Mariners (Fox Sports, 7:00 p.m.) Cardinals @ Dodgers (PRIME,......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: The Retiring Bob Barker Is All Over CBS Tonight; Comedy Hottie Sarah Silverman on Kimmel (literally too, unfortunately)"May 15, 2007
A Word or 76: CBS lineup tonight is wiped out by the CMAs and unless you are up for a Sir Laurence Olivier marathon on TCM then there's no movies on. I'm getting kind of sick of the parade of authors on late night TV, particularly Comedy Central - who the eff has time to read when there's so much bad TV? Speaking of bad TV, we're down to the final 3 on both......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Rickles on Letterman - See Him While He's Still Alive; Kimmel Does His Show From A Bus"November 11, 2006
Over the last two days, LAist has told you - where to get free gas - where to get free red hot chili peppers tickets as they play at a small club - why jd drew was a lazy douche - everything you'd ever want to know about the LAPD beat down scandal - where to dine with your valley hos - where to say hi to emilo estevez - that ray parker jr......
Continue Reading "You give us 48 hours and we'll give you LA"November 10, 2006
Veteran's Day Weekend Edition Today "The O'Reilly Factor/Hannity & Colmes/On the Record With Greta Van Susteren" (FOX, 5:00/6:00/7:00 p.m.) Watch Fox pundits continue to spin Tuesday's election results "NBA Basketball" (ESPN, 5:00 p.m.) Miami Heat @ New Jersey Nets "College Football" (ESPN2, 5:00 p.m.) Watch red-staters pour their anguish and disappointment into the Friday night lights: Texal-El Paso @ Alabama-Birmingham "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" (Nickelodeon, 5:00 p.m.) Toddlers and college stoners rejoice "College Basketball"......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie"November 10, 2006
Next week theres gonna be a huge comedy festival in Vegas called The Comedy Festival. Don Rickles, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, Triumph the Insult Dog, Damon Wayans, and the recently arrested Katt Williams are scheduled to do full sets at the legendary Caesar's Palace. So every day for the next week we will show a video or two from one of the many comics that will be out in the desert yucking it up.......
Continue Reading "Sarah Silverman - Low Self Esteem"October 27, 2006
From November 14th to November 18th, AEG & HBO will be hosting The Comedy Festival at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The five night fest promises the return of Dave Chappelle; a special night of “Tourgasm” starring Dane Cook; a live version of MTV’s “Nick Cannon Presents Wild ‘N Out”; our mom's favorite: Tom Joyner’s “Oh, Oh, Oh, Comedy Show” featuring Mike Epps, Mo’Nique, Damon Wayans, and Katt Williams; perennial “D-list” celebrity comedienne Kathy......
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